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Chapter 139 Dowry

Chapter 139 Betrothal Gift

After fighting a battle, Lu Beicen's work finally returned to normal for the time being.

The two versions of the script written by Lu Beicen only made minor adjustments, and Mr. Tang had no further instructions. But where she couldn't see, the channel leaders were busy.

Mr. Yang took Mr. Qi to work in the province, and Mr. Tang took Zheng Wei and Du Chengran to Qianyang. Such a large-scale national event is definitely not something Qianyang can make alone.

Lu Beicen returned to the state of looking for a topic. She was turning on the computer and browsing related websites. Chen Fang suddenly stood behind her. She lowered her voice and laughed softly: "Xiaolu, what else are you looking for?

?I heard that the leaders have appointed you, and you have been making big moves recently."

Lu Beicen quickly went through it in his mind. Mr. Tang had already told him that Qianyang's matter was still in the fighting stage. No news or manuscripts should be spread outside. Chen Fang didn't know where he got the news from.

It's more of a cliche.

"Ah, no, Teacher Chen, please stop laughing at me, I don't have any rice left to cook here." Lu Beicen shook his head quickly.

Seeing that Lu Beicen didn't answer, Chen Fang ignored the topic and offered an olive branch: "I have a mediation topic that needs to be sourced from outside. If you're okay, we can work together."

Ever since she was inexplicably flirted with by Chen Fang last time, but she immediately became friendly when she heard that she could earn additional writing fees. Lu Beicen was really reluctant to have too much contact with this person, and even instinctively took precautions.

But Lu Beicen stretched out his hand to avoid hitting the smiling person. Lu Beicen immediately smiled and said: "Teacher Chen, your topic selection is very good. It's okay for me to study with you. But I'm afraid it won't be good if I choose it by myself."

Already."

"Why are you and Sister Chen meeting each other like this? How about I tell you about this topic first and see if you are interested." Chen Fang simply pulled up a chair from next door and sat down. Naturally, Lu Beicen did not

If you refuse again, you can only passively prick up your ears.

"That's right, there are two clients who come to us for mediation, and they are all because of the same girl."

Chen Fang's appetizing style was as good as ever. Lu Beicen only found it a bit funny, but he tried his best to cooperate with her performance. There is a saying that it is better to offend a gentleman than a villain. Lu Beicen felt that this sentence was very appropriate here.

"Ah, this girl was abducted by human traffickers, and now the two families are at odds?" Lu Beicen used his imagination appropriately.

Chen Fang shook her head very proudly and continued: "You see, this subject matter was very good from the beginning. In the past, our client was usually one person, but this time it was actually two families."

"Yes, I have no experience and haven't noticed this yet. Teacher Chen, please tell me what's going on." Lu Beicen perfectly placed himself in a position of admiration.

"Haha, actually it's not a big deal, it's just two families fighting for their daughter-in-law."

"No way, what age are we in, and there is still the matter of one woman getting married twice."

Chen Fang seemed to be very satisfied with Lu Beicen's praise without any trace, and shook her head: "You can't say that. In fact, there are still many backward places, and the concepts are still very traditional. If you don't believe me when I tell you, you study Chinese,

You must know that the matchmaking business still exists in towns and villages, and there are quite a few of them. This is where this thing comes from."

Lu Beicen did know something about it. The earliest official matchmaking agency in China started in the Western Zhou Dynasty. In fact, it was an official marriage agency. Most of them were women who served as matchmakers and were responsible for providing marriage services to men and women of suitable age in the area under their jurisdiction.

Introducing marriages, and also responsible for widowers remarrying, integrating property, etc. The rights are still very great.

Of course, there are also private matchmakers, commonly known as matchmakers, but if you get married after being introduced by a private matchmaker, you still have to go to the official media to report it, which is a bit like going to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a marriage certificate. Without this step, the marriage is still invalid.

In ancient times, the official matchmaker was actually equivalent to a minor official in the yamen, and she held a lot of power. It was difficult for ordinary people to occupy this position. In addition to mother-daughter, there were many inheritance methods between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Of course, this was in ancient times, and most modern matchmakers in the countryside made a living by thanking matchmakers for their gifts. Although Chen Fang’s story was based on matchmakers, in fact, this girl’s mother was more fond of money.

Chen Fang curled her lips: "This family has a daughter and a son. Because the couple didn't know a few characters, they couldn't find a place to work, so they made a small living in the county town. Later, when the daughter grew up, the couple agreed

My idea is that it doesn’t matter whether you study or not, what’s important is whether you can exchange a large amount of money for marriage, and this money can help your son find a wife.”

"There aren't many people who think like this these days, right?" Lu Beicen was a little surprised. Now he has nine years of compulsory education. Except for those who are really too poor to blame, they can generally read well, regardless of whether they are sons or daughters.

It is the pride of the whole family, who would stop me, especially my parents.

Chen Fang smiled disapprovingly: "You may have grown up in the city and haven't seen many people and things like this. In fact, there are quite a few people who think this way. Some ideas are deeply ingrained. How can you change them?

easy."

"Especially in many places, the bride price for marrying off a daughter is very high, and it feels like selling a daughter. They also feel that if their daughter goes to school and works after all the hard work, they will not return to their hometown to support them in their old age. If they marry out of town, they may not even have these

If you can’t even get the bride price, it’s like a chicken and a egg.”

"In the minds of these people, their daughters will have a foreign surname sooner or later, and they will have to follow their sons to take care of themselves in old age. Therefore, if the family does not have a son, then it is simply impossible for them to hold their heads high as a human being."

"Then if you put it this way, doesn't it mean that your daughter doesn't even dare to get divorced, and she doesn't even dare to return to her parents' home after divorce?" Lu Beicen really found it difficult to understand.

"If you can't live anymore, it's better to just come back and find someone to marry. Anyway, that's what those parents think. No matter whether a woman has children or not, no matter how old she is, and no matter whether she can support herself by herself, marriage is the last step.

The destination.”

"I have photographed a case before. A daughter was divorced. After the divorce, her mother arranged a blind date and remarried. Two years later, she divorced again. This time, she did not want to get married again, but her mother was not happy and forcibly arranged a blind date.

He even helped create opportunities for the son-in-law he liked, so his daughter had no choice but to marry again."

"But this daughter's character and lifestyle are actually not suitable for marriage. Even after being married three times, she has not learned how to get along with husband and wife, or how to get along with mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. In the end, she suffered to death, and was disliked to death by her mother-in-law. There was a lot of chicken in the house every day.

She was in a hurry, even though she was divorced, and her life couldn't go on anymore. Finally, during an argument one day, she stabbed her mother-in-law to death with a fruit knife..."

This made Lu Beicen a little surprised: "She doesn't have the ability to support herself. Does she have to rely on her husband to support her?"

"No, she works as a beautician in a beauty salon, but her personality is a bit like that. I can't even tell what type of person she is. I can't describe it. There are always people who say that people in heaven are in heaven. You know how it feels, right? Anyway, communication

It's very difficult, it's always like talking to a duck. I interviewed this person for three hours, but in the end there were not a few words that were useful during the same period."

Chen Fang seemed to have suddenly come back to her senses, and patted her forehead: "Look, I'm going too far again, let's get back to this matter. When the daughter of this family grew up, the mother asked the matchmaker to help with the matchmaking, and then she first met with a family

After I got the match, the betrothal gift was spent, and a matchmaker came to visit another house. The betrothal gift was 20,000 yuan higher than the original one."

"Twenty thousand yuan, this mother felt that she was losing money by promising her daughter first. She doesn't know exactly what she thought. Anyway, she accepted a gift from another person. Then under the mother's direction, the daughter was married to the man on both sides.

The family’s request is that the first family has a banquet to consummate the marriage, and the second family has to obtain a marriage certificate.”

"But then the daughter made a big fuss in both families over a trivial matter and disappeared. I don't know whether the daughter was hidden by the mother or what happened. Anyway, the mother first told both parties about her daughter.

If you are pregnant, you need nutrition to support your body, and you have to pay for the nutrition. If you don't pay, you must have an abortion within three months."

"Later, they said that my daughter had a miscarriage because she couldn't bear the stimulation. Now she is recovering in the city. She is sad and doesn't want to see anyone..."

The three families were in a quarrel. Under such circumstances, the male families on both sides knew that the family had promised a daughter to two families, and the situation became very embarrassing. They fought countless times, but no matter how much the quarrel was, it was resolved.

There was no problem, and later the girl's family simply couldn't find anyone.

Both families went to the local township court to sue. They wanted to sue the girl's family, either surrender the girl's family, or return the bride price. This bride price is not a small amount of money for any rural family. Some of it is the whole family's life savings.

, some people don’t have enough savings to pay off debts. At this time, it can be said that the situation is overwhelming, and both people and money are lost. Can you not get angry in a hurry?

The judge in this court was really upset by these three families. The mother of the girl's family just cried, made trouble, and hung herself, claiming that the man's family couldn't bear their daughter, and the whole family beat others, which made her angry and run away.

, and then talked about the second family. The second family was also not human. His own daughter was pregnant, and he even beat her back to her parents' home.

The two men's families also had their own versions. They both said that they were the first to marry each other. One said that the wedding was held and everyone in the village testified. The other said that they had a marriage certificate and they were a legitimate couple. Anyway, the judge didn't know who to believe.

is true. The key is that this kind of Huluti case is not easy to reconcile with Xini, and the judge has never seen the daughter from beginning to end. The mother said that she was stimulated by the confinement period and is now almost depressed.

She can't be stimulated anymore.

As a result, the judge gave the two men's families a trick and asked them to find the TV station City Channel to help mediate. He said that there were many capable people there who would be able to figure out the matter and give them an explanation.

Lu Beicen suddenly felt something was wrong: "Teacher Chen, have you talked to this girl on the phone?"

Chen Fang praised with admiration: "So you are suitable for eating this bowl of rice. The focus of this matter is where is this girl? Is it like her mother said, she has a miscarriage and is sick and can't see people?"

It’s hard to say, maybe there’s another story and it’s hard to tell…”

"No, you mean there is another family?" Lu Beicen asked in surprise.

I'm back, dear book friends, I'm back to updating!

(End of chapter)


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